Now this may be a silly suggestion, but... have you considered making one of your protagonists the villain?
Hear me out, nobody is a villain in their own mind. If the plot calls for the villains to be political in nature, why not put some of your protagonists on the opposing side and have them fight for what they believe in, which just happens to be the opposite of what your heroes believe in.
From their perspective, such antagonists are still heroes, they can even be good people, they just don't see things the way the heroes see them.
Think of it like the American civil war, the southern states didn't think of themselves as bad guys, they felt they were defending themselves and their way of life, even if from our perspective they were defending slavery. It's a different in emphasis,, in what one side finds important, moral and so on, compared to the other side.
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Date: 2013-06-22 06:22 am (UTC)Hear me out, nobody is a villain in their own mind. If the plot calls for the villains to be political in nature, why not put some of your protagonists on the opposing side and have them fight for what they believe in, which just happens to be the opposite of what your heroes believe in.
From their perspective, such antagonists are still heroes, they can even be good people, they just don't see things the way the heroes see them.
Think of it like the American civil war, the southern states didn't think of themselves as bad guys, they felt they were defending themselves and their way of life, even if from our perspective they were defending slavery. It's a different in emphasis,, in what one side finds important, moral and so on, compared to the other side.